Legal Opinion
In re Maucorps
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided November 1, 1979No. Appeal No. 79-554PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of claims 1-5 and 7-13 of application serial No. 536,839, filed December 27, 1974, entitled “Computing System for Optimizing Sales Organizations and Activities.” We affirm.
The Invention
Appellant’s invention is a computer-implemented model of a sales organization. It determines the optimum number of times a sales representative for a business should visit each customer over a period of time. The optimum number of sales…
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